Doctor Who Series 1 Episode 6' title='Doctor Who Series 1 Episode 6' />Doctor Who Series TV Tropes. The thirteen and counting faces of the Doctor, and the TARDIS. Watch So I Married An Axe Murderer Dailymotion. It takes place in and established the Whoniverse, which has a continuous and constantly adapting story involving many different timelines. It also spawned the truly vast Doctor Who Expanded Universe. The premise of the show is simple enough it follows the adventures of a renegade Time Lord, the Doctor, and his various companions through time and space. He travels in his living and sentienttime machine, the TARDIS Time And Relative Dimension In Space, and meets many foes, ranging from heavily armoured robots to killer microbes and pollen to well, members of his own race. Doctor Who follows the adventures of the primary character, a rogue Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who simply goes by the name The Doctor. Part of the longevity of the series is that when the actor playing the Doctor leaves, the show gets around this by killing his character off, only to. As a result, the same character has appeared in the series from the beginning, but his new personality and new tastes give a show a distinctly different atmosphere with each regeneration, and the producers and, often, fans treat the introduction of a new Doctor as a relaunch of the series. The show also frequently changes companions over its history only a relative handful have ever actually stayed longer than more than one season, and once again the change in companion is also treated as something of a relaunch, especially in the 2. The show originally ran from 1. Executive Meddling, during which it. In the wilderness years when it was off the air 1. Doctor, stories about monsters from the series, spoofs, in name only stories featuring former Doctors on the show, licence restricted stories featuring no familiar characters from the series, audio releases, and anniversary specials technically kept the show alive. Doctor Who News is the unofficial repository of news, reviews, products and events about the series and its spinoffs, plus regular competitions. Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss says he doesnt give a monkeys when fans complain about changes to the series. The regular series scribe says that viewers have. Watch Tomcats Online more. A Made for TV Movie aired in 1. Seventh Doctor returned at the end of his life and regenerated into the Eighth. This was created as a pilot for a revival, but although the Eighth Doctor became part of the continuity as a whole, no actual return of the series resulted. Between 2. 00. 1 and 2. The BBC produced a series of webcasts which it considered in every way an official continuation of the series insofar as the Beeb ever indicates what is and isnt canon. It is possible more would have been made but for a very exciting development on the television front in 2. BBC regenerated the show. This new revival series is a direct continuation of the old series, rather than being a Continuity Reboot, and the Ninth Doctor was a successor to the classic series incarnations. The revival series has radically upgraded production values the original series is notorious for its often rubbery monster prosthetics and bad Chroma Key, shorter story arcs but much more continuity throughout, and it introduced deeper Character Development and romance to the series. As such, 2. 01. 3 marked the shows 5. The original show lasted 2. Even subtracting the 1. In addition, the Royal Mail honoured the shows anniversary with a set of stamps. In the process they have pioneered a number of brand new restoration techniques, such as Reverse Standards Conversion recovering PAL footage from NTSC copy, Chroma Dot Colour Recovery using leftover dots to recolour a black and white copy and Vid FIRE increasing the frame rate of a film copy to that of the original video, which have since also been applied to other vintage TV shows. Until 1. 97. 8, the BBC had a policy of junking episodes they no longer needed as a result, many episodes that aired from 1. Since 1. 97. 8, a concerted effort by fans and the BBC itself has resulted in many episodes being recovered, as recently as 2. At present, 9. 7 of the 2. BBC archives, though it is widely speculated that a number of episodes have been located. Fortunately, audio recordings survive of all the missing episodes, and all of the incomplete or missing storylines have also been adapted as novels over the years. In more recent years, the BBC has even commissioned animated re creations of missing episodes for DVD release, making use of reference photographs and utilizing the audio recordings. The show has spawned several spinoffs within its canon Whoniverse, which have occasionally crossed over with the main series. Except where noted, these take place in then present day Earth. K 9 and Company 1. Pilot Episode with the Doctors former companions Sarah Jane Smith and K 9. The episode aired as a Christmas special in 1. Big Finish Doctor Who 1. Nicholas Briggs, starring virtually all the surviving original TV actors. Takes place in a variety of eras and worlds, as with the TV series. Although considered canon by the BBC from the start and explicitly as of 2. Due to the audio series sheer size and complexity, it plays by the rules of the Doctor Who Expanded Universe the TV series sometimes contradicts or overwrites the audio stories, or adapts them for the televised continuity. Prior to 2. 01. 5, Big Finish only had the rights to feature characters from the original 1. Eighth Doctor from the TV movie but no other characters from the film as of 2. Doctors and characters introduced prior to the Eleventh Doctors regeneration in 2. Torchwood 2. 00. Darker and Edgier as well as Hotter and Sexier series focusing on companion Captain Jack Harkness. On indefinite hiatus after four seasons as producershow runner Russell T. Davies is currently focusing on other projects, although beginning in 2. Big Finish Productions see above started producing audio dramas featuring the original cast. The Sarah Jane Adventures 2. Lighter and Softer kid friendly spinoff. K 9 put in semi regular appearances. The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, and original series Who characters The Brigadier and Jo Grant guest starred in one serial each. The series ended production with the death of star Elisabeth Sladen. K9 2. 01. 0, an Australian childrens show produced by a company other than the BBC which continues in the spirit of The Sarah Jane Adventures. It takes place in a late 2. Dystopian London and features an upgraded version of the robot dog that had been Put on a Bus back in the 1. In late 2. 01. 5 plans were announced for a movie to premiere in 2. Class 2. 01. 6, premiering Autumn 2. Coal Hill School as they deal with typical teenager issues relationships, school life, monsters from space attempting to destroy all of existence. As such, who knows what kind of monster might take the opportunity to slip through next. A more adult oriented series than Doctor Who aimed at the YA crowd therefore allowing sexual content and violence similar to Torchwood, and produced originally for streaming on BBC Three. As of 2. 01. 7, its fate is unclear after its first series due to low streaming and broadcast viewership numbers in the UK. There are additionally many adventures in almost all types of media, often made by the cast and crew of the TV series, which freely contradict each other. Collectively, these are known as the Doctor Who Expanded Universe. Quite a few stories from the Expanded Universe ended up referenced in or even adapted for the revived TV series. The series also had three behind the scenes Companion Shows. The longest running was Doctor Who Confidential which debuted in 2. Behind the Lens has since been featured on DVD releases, and Totally Doctor Who, a kid friendly version of Confidential that aired two seasons from 2. The Infinite Quest. In 2. 01. 4, the BBC launched a scaled down version of Confidential titled Doctor Who Extra. There is also a frequently updated Match Three Game full of continuity porn known as Doctor Who Legacy. For more detailed information, check the Analysis tab. Vote for your favorite episode here. 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